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Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care

Edited by Benjamin Kerman, Madelyn Freundlich, and Anthony Maluccio

Paper, 416 pages, 17 illus., 10 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14689-0
$32.50 / £22.50

April, 2009
Cloth, 416 pages, 17 illus., 10 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14688-3
$84.50 / £58.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Describing the Problem

1. Foster Youth in Context, by Fred Wulczyn

2. A Comparative Examination of Foster Youth Who Did and Did Not Achieve Permanency, by Penelope L. Maza

3. Outcomes for Older Youth Exiting the Foster Care System in the United States, by Mark E. Courtney

4. Outcomes for Youth Exiting the Foster Care System: Extending What We Know and What Needs to Be Done with Selected Data, by Peter J. Pecora

5. Permanence and Impermanence for Youth in Out-of-Home Care, by Richard P. Barth and Laura K. Chintapalli

6. Permanence Is a State of Security and Attachment, by Gretta Cushing and Benjamin Kerman

Part II: Policy Responses to the Permanency Needs of Youth

7. Permanence for Older Children and Youth: Law, Policy, and Research, by Madelyn Freundlich

8. Federal Law and Child Welfare Reform: The Research-Policy Interface in Promoting Permanence for Older Children and Youth, by Rosemary J. Avery

9. Guardianship and Youth Permanence, by Robert B. Hill

10. A Fine Balancing Act: Kinship Care, Subsidized Guardianship, and Outcomes, by Aron Shlonsky

11. Dependency Court Reform Addressing the Permanency Needs of Youth in Foster Care: National Evaluation of the Court Improvement Program, by Karl Ensign, Sabrina A. Davis, and Elizabeth Lee

12. Facilitation of Systems Reform: Learning from Model Court Jurisdictions, by Shirley A. Dobbin

Part III: Practice Responses to the Permanency Needs of Youth

13. Permanent Families for Adolescents: Applying Lessons Learned from a Family Reunification Demonstration Program, by Barbara A. Pine and Robin Spath

14. Youth Permanence Through Adoption, by Ruth G. McRoy and Elissa Maddenn

15. Family-Involvement Meetings with Older Children in Foster Care: Promising Practices and the Challenge of Child Welfare Reform, by David Crampton and Joan Pennell

16. Developmentally Appropriate Community-Based Responses to the Permanency Needs of Older Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System, by Sandra Stukes Chipungu, Laura G. Daughtery, and Benjamin Kerman

17. Social and Life Skills Development: Preparing and Facilitating Youth for Transition into Young Adults, by Hewitt B. Clark and Kimberly A. Crosland

18. From Research to Practice: Improving Permanency Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care, by Madelyn Freundlich, Lauren Frey, Benjamin Kerman, and Sarah B. Greenblatt

Afterword: Making Families Permanent and Cases Closed?Concluding Thoughts and

Recommendations

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

About the Author

Benjamin Kerman is the director of research and evaluation for Casey Family Services, the direct services agency of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, where he has conducted program evaluations and child welfare research since 1997. He serves on the adjunct faculty of the Yale Child Study Center. Madelyn Freundlich is a senior child welfare consultant who works with national, regional, and state child welfare organizations as they develop and implement practice, program, policy, and research initiatives. She holds master's degrees in social work and public health and two degrees in law. Anthony N. Maluccio is professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut and Boston College. An internationally recognized scholar in the field of child welfare, he has written more than a hundred book chapters and journal articles on child welfare issues and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar.

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